[mark_interrupted]

Incredible. I really am speechless.

[SouthernFreebird]

A 5yr jail term is excessive for butchering someone with an axe???? WTF is that... is America the only sane place left?

[bandleader]

If she had just wounded him with a gun,she would have been sent up for life!A Very WEIRD COUNTRY!!

[Paul Atreides]

Being a woman scorned didn't hurt her either.

Clara Harris will probably get off in her trial.

[robertpaulsen]

"Mr O'Brien was found lying naked, gagged, handcuffed and blindfolded in the bedroom ... 2001."

Manslaughter? No implied malice? She left the axe sticking out of his head! Where did she get a two-foot axe -- from her cosmetic bag? This is premeditated murder.

"But they concluded that she was provoked through months of sexual demands."

That may be true. After all, wasn't that her job desription? She wasn't married. She could have left. What a joke.

[dighton]

A bizarre course of justice.

I did the right thing, says axe killer

[sheik yerbouty]

Don't axe her any questions..

[Gritty]

Her counsel, John Elvidge, said she was a devoted and caring mother who was no risk to the community "or any given individual".

Except, perhaps, Danny O'Brien!

[Cicero]

Bizarre indeed. Sentence reduced to 3-1/2 years for deliberately chopping up a man who has been tied up with 20 blows of a fire axe? And only a few weeks ago another British judge says that the life sentence of a man who defended himself against burglars must stand?

So, a cruel and deliberate murder rates 3-1/2 years but self defense in your own home rates life imprisonment? It's hard to see how a society that twists justice to this extent can long survive. It's a recipe for a complete breakdown of law and order.

No wonder muggings, open robberies, shootings, and urban violence are more widespread in England than at any time since the middle ages.